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36676 Murder of North Korean Prisoners of War -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > That story was on the bottom fold of today's SF Chronicle. > For a related story, from Dissent, not known for being tough on US >imperialism, see the following. The full AP story from a few months ago. >Comments by Marilyn Blatt Young and Michael Walzer. Walzer's comments are appalling. Though two listmembers - Liza Featherstone & Kim Phillips-Fein - have fine pieces in the spring issue, and Rachel Neumann gets the best of David Glenn in a defense ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 13:16:47 PDT 2000

36677 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Reparations from America, etc. that fought in the Korean War, to >begin with. Reparation from Japan to atone for its colonialism & >wartime atrocities. Right, I'm sure those will be immediately forthcoming. Aside from this lovely fantasy, what do you suggest NK really do? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 22 13:02:44 PDT 2000

36678 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What's your (or anyone's) socialist alternative for North Korea? That's an excellent question, and I don't know the answer, and I don't think you do either. NK-style "self-reliance" is a disaster. On all but the most slavishly devoted accounts, the country is desperately poor and governed by a bizarre personality cult. In what ways are "socialist" North Koreans any better off than the proletarians of capitalist South Korea? Do you really think a sm ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 22 12:55:00 PDT 2000

36679 Fwd: D.C. Protestor Interview -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 16:05:16 -0500 To: nyfreemedia at tao.ca From: Eileen Sutton <eileensutton at earthlink.net> ...WBAI News today spoke with a D.C. protestor from jail. This conversation will be aired on the local cast tonight, starting at 6:30 p.m. This Friday cast will not be repeated at 11:30 p.m. ...over 90% of the protestors are now on hunger strike...they are attempting to call the press from inside the prison during their allotted phone calls. Please call to pressure: the U. ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 21 13:59:31 PDT 2000

36680 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Alexandre Fenelon wrote: > >> Speaking of North Korea, I have a question for ya. I was under the >> impression that the country is a textbook example of squalor. > >------------------- > >I think you might be thinking of Haiti and other U.S. colonies and >ghettos. In recent years, Harlem had a higher infant mortality rate >than most of the world. That's all true, Charles, but that still doesn't make NK a very admirable model of anythin ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 21 12:29:31 PDT 2000

36681 Washington Post on A16 -- rank: 1000

Christian A. Gregory wrote: >Where might I find this fabled Meltzer Report? <http://phantom-x.gsia.cmu.edu/IFIAC/Report.html> Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 21 12:10:36 PDT 2000

36682 moral emptiness, cop consultation -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] REBELLION WITHOUT A CAUSE. In one of many letters-to-the-editors of the New York Times (p.A24) and the Washington Post (p.A26), Rabbi Bruce Cohen writes that Paul Krugman (column, April 19) uncovers the false "moral superiority" of those who attacked the World Bank in Washington. The demonstrators exuded ignorance, he says. Under James D. Wolfensohn, the Bank is on the cutting edge of empowering people to uplift themselves by their own means. Me ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 21 12:09:26 PDT 2000

36683 DC cop techniques -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] Nice Cop-Tough Cop Tactic Paid Off for District Police By Arthur Santana Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 20, 2000; Page B01 The call went out around midnight on Mobilization Radio, the pirate station that aired messages to the activists: Meet in Dupont Circle at 4 a.m. for some street action against the World Bank. Protesters had hoped to outsmart the police, by starting so early. But when they began converging on Dupont in a driving rain Monday morning, a h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 21 11:43:33 PDT 2000

36684 "Meet the New New Left: bold, fun, and stupid, " in TNR -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >It's difficult for me to believe that anyone >who can get to write for TNR for money would be unaware of >anarchist history in America, or that there is a huge amount >of anarchist literature in print and on the Net, of every sort >of quality. Have you ever talked with mainstream newspaper and/or magazine journalists? Such massive ignorance is entirely believable. Standard issue, I'm tempted to say. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 21 11:15:13 PDT 2000

36685 Wolfie to Bankers: thanks! -- rank: 1000

[a letter from World Bank president James Wolfensohn to his staff] Dear Colleagues, Now that the Spring Meetings are over and the last Ministers have left, I want to express my thanks to each one of you for your contribution to the success of the meetings. In so many different ways, your contributions provided the basis for the Ministers’ fruitful discussions on trade, development and poverty reduction; HIV/AIDS; the HIPC initiative and other issues. The overall impact was of a team that is ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 15:54:06 PDT 2000

36686 Bubble Mystery Solved! -- rank: 1000

dave wrote: >So here we have it - the Ultimate Answer to the problem of "whence >cometh the bubble?" - >women! Wow. This idiot seems unaware of research showing that women outperform men in stock trading, because men are overconfident and trade too much <http://www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/~odean/papers/gender/gender.html>: >Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment > >Brad Barber and Terrance Odean > >Abstract > > >Theoretica ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 15:38:32 PDT 2000

36687 Shatner sold Priceline.com share -- rank: 1000

WSJ.com Audio: Business Update Markets Recap WSJ on Audible Learn More Journal Atlas: Table of Contents Headlines Business Index Search News Search Past Editions Wall Street Journal - April 19, 2000 Founding Investors and Insiders Unloaded Tech Shares Before Fall By MARK MAREMONT, TERZAH EWING and LAURA SAUNDERS EGODIGWE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL This month's ugly plunge in technology stocks left many stunned investors wishing they had sold earlier, or at least lightened up on t ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 12:49:14 PDT 2000

36688 cops fear gardeners! -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - April 19, 2000 Anti-capitalists to target London By Andrew Ward Financial institutions in London are being warned by police to assess their risk of attack by protesters over the weekend leading up to May 1 when up to 10,000 anti-capitalist demonstrators are expected to converge on the city. One of the biggest police operations in London's history is planned for the four-day event. It is feared the protest could turn violent. Last June, a riot in London's financial district led ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 12:44:53 PDT 2000

36689 Lagavulin was Re: Hundreds arrested -- rank: 1000

M A Jones wrote: >Japanese men are waiting, to >serve Doug. Wow, no kidding. What should I ask them for? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 20 12:09:27 PDT 2000

36690 Fwd: [mayday2k-NYC] DC Chief Ramsey's private cell phone number -- rank: 1000

[can't vouch for this, but speed-dial away! from the M2K list] Friends, Here are the private cell phone numbers of many cops on the DC police force including at the top Chief Ramsey. I am sure that the chief would be interested in your comments regarding the protests and the police brutality. Read below to find out how the number was obtained. RAMSEY 202 437 2600 GAINER 202 437 2540 BROADBENT 202 437 2239 jordan 202 437 2281 monroe 202 437 2282 mcmanus 202 437 2284 fitzgerald 202 437 2285 jacks ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 12:07:42 PDT 2000